Weekly Newsletter

Last Week (Sept. 22-24)

Happy fall!

We said good-bye to summer & welcomed fall by reading “Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf,” making marbled leaves with shaving cream & paint & digging for shapes in our fall sensory bin.

 It’s “B” week!  We learned how to sign the letter “B,” named many pictures that begin with the letter “B” read My B Book by Jane Belk Moncure, sang “B is for my Body” & walked the letter “B.”  “B” week will continue into next week due to the short week.

And speaking of short weeks, Rosh Hashanah is the reason for our short week so we read Sammy Spider’s First Rosh Hashanah by Sylvia Krauss and learned a little bit about this holiday.

To help us with our letters, we’re learning yoga with The ABC’s of Yoga for Kids written by Teresa Anne Power. Each week we will learn a new yoga pose corresponding with our letter of the week.

This Week (Sept. 29-Oct. 3)

What a busy week! We had apples, honey & challah bread for snack to learn about some foods eaten during Rosh Hashanah. We dipped the apples in honey, which signifies having a sweet New Year.  Some of us liked it, some of us didn’t. But that’s okay; we all have different tastes, which is only one part of us that makes us unique.

Speaking of different, we read a flipbook called “I Am Special” & learned how people are all different.  We have different hair color, eye color & skin color. We like different foods & different toys. We also read Shades of People by Shelly Rotner, which showed us the different color skin people can have. 

You may have noticed a special newsletter coming home in our backpacks. We have a class subscription to “My Big World with Clifford” & will receive several themed newsletters this year.  One of the themes was friends & sharing. We watched a short video about friendship & talked about sharing.  Candice & Allison share blocks & Thomas shares crayons. If you would like to see the videos we watch in class you can go to http://clifford.scholastic.com/ & register for an account. Our class password is crayon. You can review all of the videos we’ll be watching as the school year progresses.   

Guess what? We have an easel in the class now! We painted self-portraits & painted lots of pictures on our new easel.  We said good-bye to September & hello to October. Did you know September had 22 sunny days, 6 cloudy days & 2 rainy days? We had the MOST sunny days & the LEAST rainy days. We also read Fall Leaves Change Color, Why Do Leaves Change Color? & I Am a Leaf to welcome October. And because it’s now October, we have a new Halloween sensory bin.

And one more thing…we are learning to write our letters using the Fundations program.  This program is used by Sachem School District. It is appropriate for our 4-5 year olds so our 2’s & 3’s aren’t expected to master this yet.

Looking Ahead

Happy October! Fall is in full swing & October has begun. We can’t wait to celebrate Halloween! Stay tuned as we keep you posted about our Halloween festivities in the next few weeks! 

National Fire Prevention Week is October 5-11. We will learn all about fire safety.

Our All About Me unit will continue as we keep exploring our five senses & learning about our feelings.

Our new letter of the week will be “C.” 

Learning to write our name is important & we will use the Fundations program to acquire this readiness skill.

Have a wonderful weekend!